For decades, women in Western Kenya have been denied active participation in the region’s socio-economic growth by entrenched gender inequities, cultural norms and poverty.Their contributions have often been undervalued or rendered invisible,

The feature debut of Kenya's Vincho Nchogu follows a woman who signs a morally questionable deal with an NGO that sets her at odds with her community.

Police in Limpopo investigate a shocking murder linked to a love triangle, where a man was brutally attacked with an axe, leaving one brother on the run and another in custody.

Across Africa, where most of the population has no running water, the task of collecting it from a stream, bore hole or spring typically falls to women and children. It is a responsibility that knows no age: As the continent’s population of older people grows, so too does the number of older people fetching water on arduous daily treks.

When Ahlam Saeed awoke last month to the sound of gunfire and roaring vehicle motors, the 43-year-old widow rushed outside her home in war-torn Sudan to find a line of at least two dozen vehicles, many of them motorcycles carrying armed fighters.

The odds are stacked against pregnant women in Nigeria’s northeast like never before. The deadly Boko Haram militant group is making a resurgence. And hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid from the United States, once Nigeria’s biggest donor, have disappeared under the Trump administration this year.

At just 17 years old, Lawley juggles high school, weekend odd jobs and the full-time care of her two younger brothers. Hers is a child-headed household: her mother passed away and her father has been absent for years.